What do you think of Apple now?
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http://news.com.com/Xbox+360+demos+running...658.html?tag=nl
"We purchased a number of Apple G5's because very specific hardware components of the G5 allow developers to emulate some of the technology behind future Xbox products and services," a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement. "This is an interim development tool that will be replaced with a more powerful and comprehensive solution later."
"more powerful and comprehensive solutions" = aka: Apple G6
Remember, Halo was originally developed on/for the Mac.
"We purchased a number of Apple G5's because very specific hardware components of the G5 allow developers to emulate some of the technology behind future Xbox products and services," a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement. "This is an interim development tool that will be replaced with a more powerful and comprehensive solution later."
"more powerful and comprehensive solutions" = aka: Apple G6
Remember, Halo was originally developed on/for the Mac.
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Originally Posted by Chazmo,May 25 2005, 09:04 PM
Y'know, James, that's a really good point. Rolls and Bentley are now German-owned. TVR, I'm afraid, is Russian-owned (maybe you didn't know that). Jaguar is Ford-owned... What's left? What about Lotus?
MG/Rover was British (I think) but they went down the pan a few weeks ago.
Strangely enough though, many of the F1 teams still have their headquarters and development teams in Britain.
.... I've just come up with a couple more British marques .... Bristol and Morgan ... both very British ....
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the PPC platform is far superior to x86 for a myriad of reasons, the foremost being power dissipation, instruction parallelism (altivec vs mmx/sse), and register management (general vs special). Altivec has a much better design than MMX/SSE, allowing for vector ops and permutations to happen in the same clock cycle. With GCC4 the autovectorization algorithms have been greatly improved, allowing much more software to take advantage of vector processing with less developer effort. For many features in OSX, porting to x86 would result in a big performance hit due to the lack of parallelism available.
fyi, AMDs x86 processors are really RISC chips - they have a translation layer to go from the standard x86 CISC. That's how bad a cpu implementation intel came up with.
I read an interview the other day where the head of Intel was quoted saying that he recommends macs to friends and family members, that wintel is a nasty platform to use.
I can talk all day about PPC, I love the chip. IBM has some very good whitepapers up on the subject.
fyi, AMDs x86 processors are really RISC chips - they have a translation layer to go from the standard x86 CISC. That's how bad a cpu implementation intel came up with.
I read an interview the other day where the head of Intel was quoted saying that he recommends macs to friends and family members, that wintel is a nasty platform to use.
I can talk all day about PPC, I love the chip. IBM has some very good whitepapers up on the subject.